Just a correction for the Bonn info – Nick Fyffe is a former Jamiroquai bass player. By the way, there’s another Jamiroquai connection in the Purple family tree – Don used their axeman on A Light in the Sky and the subsequent European minitour.

#19 in the U.K. charts Simon – ‘A Simple Song’, ‘Weirdistan’, ‘Out Of Hand’, ‘Above And Beyond’, ‘Uncommon Man’, ‘All The Time In The World’, and the gloriously OTT ‘Vincent Price’ (and ‘Hell To Pay’ as encore) – should I book our flights?!

It would be great for them to do a tour based on the newer material. Even if they had to print a disclaimer on the posters and tickets for people who can’t handle anything new. I certainly remember the Purpendicular tour going down well.

Just one (!) song from the new CD – is that it?! Had planned on booking flights/hotel and buying tickets for Manchester but, in my case, set list saturation point has been met/surpassed so, unless there are three or four new songs (inc. the marvelously OTT Vincent Price!). If it’s just the same old, same old, as the Dragons of the Den say, ‘I’m out’!

Once again (third time in 6 years) a pitiful UK tour from an English band. I like lots have followed this band since 1970 but feel very let down again! Come on guys. A proper tour for your oldest, longest running, fans! Please.

I agree Richard. I`ve thought for many years they neglect these home shores. Then its just the same old soul-less exhibition halls. Only those Purpindicular dates have made different venues and they were the best shows since the reunion. Disappointing really because Ian Gillan as a solo artist would play all over the UK at one time. The band has just become a global money-making machine now churning out the same old set-list again and again.

Really enjoyed Auckland gig last night. The boys played most songs from early albums. Some you would not have expected like “No One Came” from Fireball. Great night and ex. to see the guys enjoy themselves doing what they are best at. Thanks guys for the entertainment over many, many years.

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I’d not forgotten that we have rolled around to an important anniversary, honest. Just shocked to realise we’d got the date wrong for all these years…! Seriously. It’s not so easy to find something new to say, particularly as I’ve been raving about this album for fifty years now myself. Many of us have […]

This photo has been floating about on the web for some time, but thanks to Mike Richards we can locate this to Newcastle City Hall on the 1980 Down To Earth tour. This is mainly because he spotted a mate in the balcony in the pic he went to school with! It was taken by […]

Our I Spy Car spotter days are behind us here at DTB so it’s taken us a while to catch up with this Nissan, badged the Highway Star. It was launched back in 1997 but wasn’t sold in the UK, except as an grey import (wikipedia says imports were “mainly driven by car enthusiasts, or […]

I assume we’re not the only ones to have used some of the current lockdown to do a bit of tidying. Simon tells us he found three dust masks in his shed while he was having a good sort out over Easter, the first time he’s been able to tackle this for over a year, […]

Derek Lawrence, Deep Purple’s first producer, deal maker, guiding light and without whom… died last week, May 13th 2020. It’s taken me a few days to get to grips with the news and put a few words together for this site. It is sometimes easy to overlook Mk 1’s contributions to the band’s catalogue but […]

This Is Rock magazine in Spain have kicked off the In Rock 50th anniversary with a cover feature in their latest issue, although inside it is just a single page looking back. Nice for cover collectors though. My thanks to Hugh Gilmour for the news, even if it is starting to make some of us […]

So exactly why should we be marking the passing of Little Richard here? Well, Deep Purple In Rock would not have been the same without Richard’s trail blazing contributions to rock’n roll for starters. Speed King in particular owes even more, with Ian Gillan quoting lyrics from Little Richard classics throughout (to brilliant effect). Deep […]

Tonight would have been Deep Purple’s live debut in Japan, the first of two shows in Osaka in May 1972. Tickets available at 1400 Yen to 2300 Yen (or 3300 Yen for a box seat). BUT the three shows were cancelled some time before due to a backlog in America where the band were trying […]

Ian Paice has joined the long list of musicians who have taken a leaf out of the younger generation’s book and begun putting material up on the web to entertain everyone, is promising more broadcasts to come. He was always entertaining on shows like Super Drumming and The Ian Paice Drum Tribe (has he been […]

This tickled us seen by Simon in a dusty shop window over in Bridlington a couple of years ago. It’s probably still there (the shop is just by the walk way at the top of the harbour). A set of strange ‘Dad’ mugs with various faux adverts on the side and themed handles. So this […]